Shota Kristesashvili
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 20, 1941
Known For
The Summer of Frozen Fountains
Does air temperature really matter for fountains to be frozen or melt? One just need to stop and look around... It's a mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of their own happiness. It's about hopes and disapointments, betrayal and forgivness... and of course it's all about love...
Tbilisi-Tbilisi
A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.
Dream Town
If your romantic dreams don't come true on New Year's Day, don't worry, as Valentine's Day is just around the corner. You will easily believe this is possible if you watch the romance between Sandro and Nini unfolding in one of the nightclubs of modern-day Tbilisi.
A Chef in Love
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
The Nylon Christmas Tree
A group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.
Mister Adventurers
Foreign adventurers arrive in a small town of Georgia on a special mission, but locals hospitality and customs make them forget their goals completely.
Empty Space
The main character of the film is a participant of The Abkhazian War, who, instead of protecting the integrity of Georgia, made profit from the war, then took refuge in Russia and returned to Tbilisi after three years...
Lucky Village
The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An exploration of the problems of man's inner freedom.
Metichara
A story about a friendship between eleven years old Niniko and a dolphin named Metichara.
The Fog
Boy’s first encounter with human cruelty occurs as hunters kill and skin a bear. The gruesome scene sparks physical disgust, spiritual anxiety, profound guilt, and growing alienation from the adults.
Filmography
as Vakho
as L'ami de ZIgmund
as (voice)